Separate Dreams

By Kathleen McCall

The pages of Separate Dreams turn in serene dialogue between photographer Glenn Osborn's masterfully luxurious digital photo-collages and the intimately sensual poems of Kathleen McCall. McCall's private stanzas recapture for the reader the precise instances when life's momentary burdens transcend despair to resonate jewel-like as "green memory in amber." Osborn's celebrated, creatively formal portraits of blossoms offer resonate hues and rich textures, glowing images, evocative in their examination of the edge between photographic reality and digital manipulation. A fine book of mutual artistry and fluid inspiration.' Joel Lipman, Professor of English and Art, the University of ToledoPhoto artist Glenn Osborn and poet Kathleen McCall join forces in a visual and poetic collaboration that is both striking and deeply moving. Osborn's photocompositions are gorgeous collages, restrained and exquisite, dreamlike, lucid, but with an edge, a startling or ominous element'?a knife, a spider web, bones, hidden faces. Kathleen McCall's poems and prose poems touch the silences of everyday life with a gentle hand as she explores domestic and natural settings, the stages of life, relationships, family, love, loss and death. Her voice is controlled and candid, while at the same time there is a subtle, clear music in the language'?and always the imperative to '?speak some toothed truth / of what you see, / or say nothing at all.'? Together, poems and pictures smolder like lovers who cannot look away from each other. I could not look away from this book.' Richard Carr, author of Mister Martini, Street Portraits, Honey, and Ace

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439228612
• ISBN13: 9781439228616
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"